• Alan said, “I can bring it back to you next week.”
• “Take these flowers,” suggested Bridget, “and give them to your mother.”
• “Can they do that?” she asked.  “Isn’t that a violation of the rules?”

1. Do not use quotation marks or capital letters to begin an indirect quotation.

   • Sarah said that the concert has been postponed until Tuesday night.  (Many indirect quotations are introduced by the word that.)
   • We asked where the old furniture had been placed.

• This month’s Decision Magazine includes an interesting article, “A New Day Has Dawned,” by Billy Graham.
• Read Chapter 7, “Elements of Trigonometry,” by tomorrow.
• Rob told me that “Yesterday,” sung by the Beatles, is his favorite oldie.
• The first poem in S. Omar Barker’s Rawhide Rhymes is “Old Time Cowboys.”

1. In typing or in writing, if italics are not available, underline the titles of books, magazines, operas, and any other works of art long enough to appear in book form.  Underlining signifies italics for printing.

   • The anthology, Toward Liberal Education, includes A. E. Housman’s “Introductory Lecture” and S. I. Hayakawa’s “Poetry and Advertising.”
   • The soprano sang “If Madam Should Call You” from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.

• The word “discreet” frequently is misspelled.
• The phrase “at the same time” sometimes is used as a transitional phrase within a sentence.
• The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a good typing exercise, since it contains all the letters of the alphabet.

1. It also is permissible, in the above examples, to italicize or underline the words, phrases, or sentences rather than to set them off with quotation marks.

   • The word discreet frequently is misspelled.
   • The phrase at the same time sometimes is used as a transitional phrase within a sentence.
   • The sentence The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog is a good typing exercise, since it contains all the letters of the alphabet.

• When sending instant messages online, “LOL” often is used to mean “laughing out loud.”
• In the letter to his grandmother, Jordan wrote that it would be “kewl and awesome” if they could communicate via email.

1. It also is permissible, in the above examples, to italicize or underline the slang words or expressions rather than to set them off with quotation marks.

   • When sending instant messages online, often LOL is used to mean laughing out loud.
   • In the letter to his grandmother, Jordan wrote that it would be kewl and awesome if they could communicate via email.

• Our teacher said we have to memorize the first part of Marc Antony’s oration from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar:

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.  The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.

“Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest—
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men—
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.”